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• The popularity of the paranormal, oddly enough, might even be grounds for encouragement. I think that the appetite for mystery, the enthusiasm for that which we do not understand, is healthy and to be fostered. It is the same appetite which drives the best of true science, and it is an appetite which true science is best qualified to satisfy.

  Richard Dawkins

  Encouragement, Thinking, Healthy

  "Science, Delusion, and the Appetite for Wonder". Richard Dimbleby Lecture on BBC1 Television, www.edge.org. November 12, 1996.

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• The ambitious will always be first in the crowd; he presseth forward, he looketh not behind him. More anguish is it to his mind to see one before him, than joy to leave thousands at a distance

  Akhenaton

  Distance, Joy, Mind

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• As always, the British especially shudder at the latest American vulgarity, and then they embrace it with enthusiasm two years later

  Alistair Cooke

  Years, Two, Embrace

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• Thus, after finishing high school, I started with high expectations and enthusiasm to study chemistry at the famous Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich.

  Richard Ernst

  School, Technology, Zurich

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• ...it was dangerous to overflow because we might end up finding ourselves occupied by our loved ones and drowning them with our love and enthusiasm.

  Paulo Coelho

  Love, Might, Drowning

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• In times of danger large groups rise to the highest pitch of enthusiasm, courage and sacrifice . . . Mankind will be refashioned and history rewritten when this law is understood and obeyed.

  Helen Keller

  Inspirational, Sacrifice, Law

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• Exuberance is better than taste.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Taste, Exuberance

  Gustave Flaubert (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Gustave Flaubert (Illustrated)”, p.1193, Delphi Classics

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• Enthusiasm is the most beautiful word on earth.

  Christian Morgenstern

  Beautiful, Earth, Beautiful Words

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• My enthusiasms...constitute my reserves, my unexploited resources, perhaps my future.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Resources, My Future, Reserves

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• Man never rises to great truths without enthusiasm.

  Luc de Clapiers

  Men

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• I am hoping the four new players can bring in some energy and fresh enthusiasm because they do not have the baggage that comes from being part of a losing side.

  Andy Pick

  Player, Two Sides, Energy

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• Life is enthusiasm, zest.

  Laurence Olivier

  Zest, Life Is

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• Are you spontaneously enthusiastic about everyone having everything you can have?

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Enthusiastic

  "Critical Path". Book by Buckminster Fuller, 1981.

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• Enthusiasm is a divine possession.

  Margaret Sanger

  Divine, Possession

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• I'm not lacking for enthusiasm as you can see, given that I have something like 65 canvases covered with paint and I'll be needing more since the place is quite out of the ordinary; so I'm going to order some more canvases.

  Claude Monet

  Order, Ordinary, Paint

  Claude Monet (1999). “Monet by himself: paintings, drawings, pastels, letters”

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• What is man but his passion?

  Robert Penn Warren

  Passion, Men

  Robert Penn Warren, John Burt (1998). “The Collected Poems of Robert Penn Warren”, p.254, LSU Press

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• Art cannot single-handedly create enthusiasm... it merely contributes to enthusiasm and guides us to be more conscious of feelings that we might previously have experienced only tentatively or hurriedly.

  Alain de Botton

  Art, Feelings, Might

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• O lovely Sisters! is it true That they are all inspired by you, And write by inward magic charm'd, And high enthusiasm warm'd?

  Joanna Baillie

  Writing, Lovely, Magic

  Joanna Baillie (1853). “The dramatic and poetical works of Joanna Baillie”, p.782

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• This, indeed, is one of the eternal paradoxes of both life and literature-that without passion little gets done; yet, without control of that passion, its effects are largely ill or null.

  F. L. Lucas

  Passion, Null, Done

  F. L. Lucas (2012). “Style: The Art of Writing Well”, Harriman House Limited

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• I was overcome with an attack of pathological enthusiasm.

  Robert Lowell

  Overcoming

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• Many of the old masters of watercolour painted from notes, with enthusiasm either unabated or renewed. It is hard to assume the same degree of concentration in the studio, but not impossible.

  Walter J. Phillips

  Degrees, Impossible, Assuming

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• A method of achieving wild enthusiasm is to act wildly enthusiastic. Often, a growing and beautiful love-affair develops quite automatically.

  Robert Genn

  Beautiful, Growing, Affair

  Robert Genn (1996). “The Painter's Keys: A Seminar with Robert Genn”, p.33, Studio Beckett Publications

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• Good morning! Remember: A person can succeed at almost anything for which they have unlimited enthusiasm.

  Charles M. Schwab

  Good Morning, Succeed, Remember

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• When a person applies enthusiasm to his job, the job will itself become alive with exciting new possibilities.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Jobs, Alive, Possibility

  Dr. Norman Vincent Peale (2003). “Enthusiasm Makes the Difference”, p.58, Simon and Schuster

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• It is a fine thing to see people in hot earnest about anything.

  John Muir

  People, Hot, Fine Things

  John Muir (2015). “JOHN MUIR’S CALIFORNIA COLLECTION: My First Summer in the Sierra, Picturesque California, The Mountains of California, The Yosemite & Our National Parks (Illustrated): Adventure Memoirs, Travel Sketches, Nature Writings and Wilderness Essays”, p.269, e-artnow

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